Exactly, I have the same experience. I've been building very succesfull applications in Flex since 2006 and I love how it is a truly object oriented user interface platform. The applications run fine one different operating systems, without the hassle of browser manufacturers having different implementations of standards. I son't see my company putting Flex aside for a long time, and I haven't seen a product that comes close is completeness, possibilities and ease of use.
Besides being an oxymoron, the speed of light nor anything else will stop one from proclaiming an "unlimited speed limit". If you have a car that goes anywhere near the speed of light, let me know, I might have a buyer.
As impressive as this may be, it still makes me feel like we have an awful lot of explaining to do to the likes of Jules Verne, Nicola Tesla, Isaac Asimov etc. Surely they would have imagined the state of the art of robotica in 2011 to be... different
I briefly visited San José and San Fransisco in 2003 for the Game Developers Conference. I phoned Xerox PARC to inquire whether they had guided tours, but they didn't (I guess maybe parts of it were still operational/considered company secrets?). Later I was able to visit Macromedia's office which was a huge thrill, although basically it was simply an office, nothing very special to see. To me it meant much, being a Flash developer from Amsterdam in those days I was very excited to meet the people who were actually building that software. In the form of Flex I still use it everyday, although I've become more of a Java developer/CTO now.
I'm sure the companies in Silicon Valley could make some nice bucks on the side by providing guided tours to several big industry names. It would be a great way for these companies to emphasize their brand names too. Heck, if I were living there, I'd probably start up a company doing exactly that:-)
> it'd be an ideal foodsource for places that need food relief
Can you imagine the embarrassment and humiliation people in such need would feel. Besides being left to the goodwill of others to survive, you find out they feed you their shit, because it's cheaper...
What I understood (as Stephen Fry in QI explained) is we're actually only using 10% of our brain *at a time*. There are waves of activity throughout the tissue that move around quite rapidly and these waves do cover the entire brain, but only about 10% at a time. I guess this is no different than muscle tissue: you don't expect to be using 100% of your muscles at a time either:-D
Dutch guy here as well.
You must be aware of the unions yearly salary indexation agreements as part of the annual budget, which are formalized as part of the collective labor agreements (CAO).
I don't know about your particular case or your co-workers, but more than half of the Dutch employees work for companies that fall under CAO agreements.
Actually, where OP is from (Netherlands), it's the norm to correct salaries for inflation. If your salary is never corrected for inflation, your employer is reaping the benefits and leaving you out cold. I know US employment rules are very different, but not correcting for inflation means you're earning less money every month. Maybe you should make it part of your contract negotiations to have periodical indexation of your salary. You would only be asking for what's fair.
and because it didn't integrate with GMail. no one I know had Wave, they required to invite your whole address book all over again, next to skype, facebook, yahoo IM etc. It useless to have so many different mail boxes to check
Python 2.5.2:/usr/bin/python
Sat Apr 24 14:34:09 2010
A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of function calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred./home/jonathan/mirror/ajax/server.cgi in ()
220 print_palette_frame()
221 elif get_cgi(u'page') == u'showcase':
222 print_showcase_frame()
223 elif get_cgi(u'page') == u'text':
224 print_text_frame()
print_showcase_frame =/home/jonathan/mirror/ajax/server.cgi in print_showcase_frame()
149 css = styles[get_style()]
150 text = get_cgi(u'text')
151 link = commands.getoutput(u'/usr/local/bin/link')
152 timestamp = time.asctime(time.gmtime()) + u' UTC'
153 print u'''
link undefined, global commands = , commands.getoutput =/usr/local/lib/python2.5/commands.py in getoutput(cmd=u'/usr/local/bin/link')
42 def getoutput(cmd):
43 """Return output (stdout or stderr) of executing cmd in a shell."""
44 return getstatusoutput(cmd)[1]
45
46
global getstatusoutput = , cmd = u'/usr/local/bin/link'/usr/local/lib/python2.5/commands.py in getstatusoutput(cmd=u'/usr/local/bin/link')
51 """Return (status, output) of executing cmd in a shell."""
52 import os
53 pipe = os.popen('{ ' + cmd + '; } 2>&1', 'r')
54 text = pipe.read()
55 sts = pipe.close()
pipe undefined, os = , os.popen = , cmd = u'/usr/local/bin/link'
: [Errno 35] Resource temporarily unavailable
args = (35, 'Resource temporarily unavailable')
errno = 35
filename = None
message = ''
strerror = 'Resource temporarily unavailable'
...is the Dutch word for what I think of Dijkstra.
He's overly negative is his opinions only to impress others and to let off steam built up by his personal frustrations.
Besides his wonderful contributions to CS, he was mainly just a grumpy old man who's opinions have been grossly overrated.
The gems of his work are in his scientific contributions, not in his tantrums.
I used to be a fan of my C64 games as a kid and I loved playing PC games for years. So much in fact I tried breaking into game development and ran the local IGDA chpater for some years.
My heart is still with games and I think they are a wonderful extension to the artforms of literature, cinema and storytelling.
When I see how the game dev industry treats its customers these days, I really get the feeling they are way beyond stretching their welcome. Games (especially console games) are so icredibly overpriced and lacking of creativity and intellectual depth that I wonder why gamers are still interested in buying/playing them.
I haven't upgraded my gaming pc for almost 8 years now and I only have a Wii because my wife like the balance board games (and admittedly I love being her audience).
The only games I occassionaly play are the really old ones, like Civ II/III Baldur's Gate stuff, the good old Sierra point and clicks (Larry, 2D King Quest) because of the humor and fun in these games. Also I really love firing up the C64 emulator for a quick round of classics.
When will they stop squeezing customers for every penny and drop the incredible graphics/hardware performance race that has been polluting the game content for the past decade. I don't give a damn about 3D performnace or yet another FPS, come up with something new, interesting exciting. Something that doesn't insult my intelligence and challenges and entertains me in a more subtle way.
Dear Douglas Adams I miss you, you were well on your way to solve this problem but you passed too soon.
Oh god, is no one going to change this rotten game dev industry we're having?
Perhaps I'm just an old fool blabbering about the lost good old days, but doesn't anyone agree that it's not supposed to be like this?
*sigh*
Regular bikes also have been around for more than a century and actually also help you get the lard of your ass much quicker. I guess this is why America is fat.
Slashdot Mirror
Reading the news lately feels more and more like reading the Onion
Exactly, I have the same experience. I've been building very succesfull applications in Flex since 2006 and I love how it is a truly object oriented user interface platform. The applications run fine one different operating systems, without the hassle of browser manufacturers having different implementations of standards. I son't see my company putting Flex aside for a long time, and I haven't seen a product that comes close is completeness, possibilities and ease of use.
> Don't have sex with someone who has it!
Hmmm, so tell me, how do I control with 100% certainty that my wife never strays and never gets infected?
That means Android on tablets has a unique advantage over their 2 main competitors...
Besides being an oxymoron, the speed of light nor anything else will stop one from proclaiming an "unlimited speed limit". If you have a car that goes anywhere near the speed of light, let me know, I might have a buyer.
As impressive as this may be, it still makes me feel like we have an awful lot of explaining to do to the likes of Jules Verne, Nicola Tesla, Isaac Asimov etc. Surely they would have imagined the state of the art of robotica in 2011 to be... different
I briefly visited San José and San Fransisco in 2003 for the Game Developers Conference. I phoned Xerox PARC to inquire whether they had guided tours, but they didn't (I guess maybe parts of it were still operational/considered company secrets?). Later I was able to visit Macromedia's office which was a huge thrill, although basically it was simply an office, nothing very special to see. To me it meant much, being a Flash developer from Amsterdam in those days I was very excited to meet the people who were actually building that software. In the form of Flex I still use it everyday, although I've become more of a Java developer/CTO now.
I'm sure the companies in Silicon Valley could make some nice bucks on the side by providing guided tours to several big industry names. It would be a great way for these companies to emphasize their brand names too. Heck, if I were living there, I'd probably start up a company doing exactly that :-)
vsftpd
compared to a regular dvd, moron
they took our chaaps!!!
> it'd be an ideal foodsource for places that need food relief
Can you imagine the embarrassment and humiliation people in such need would feel. Besides being left to the goodwill of others to survive, you find out they feed you their shit, because it's cheaper...
Next step: Soylent Green?
Are there really people who *preordered* DNF??? With inflation that should give them a pretty neat deal, if it's released...
What I understood (as Stephen Fry in QI explained) is we're actually only using 10% of our brain *at a time*. There are waves of activity throughout the tissue that move around quite rapidly and these waves do cover the entire brain, but only about 10% at a time. I guess this is no different than muscle tissue: you don't expect to be using 100% of your muscles at a time either :-D
Dutch guy here as well. You must be aware of the unions yearly salary indexation agreements as part of the annual budget, which are formalized as part of the collective labor agreements (CAO). I don't know about your particular case or your co-workers, but more than half of the Dutch employees work for companies that fall under CAO agreements.
Actually, where OP is from (Netherlands), it's the norm to correct salaries for inflation. If your salary is never corrected for inflation, your employer is reaping the benefits and leaving you out cold. I know US employment rules are very different, but not correcting for inflation means you're earning less money every month. Maybe you should make it part of your contract negotiations to have periodical indexation of your salary. You would only be asking for what's fair.
this post is marked as 'Informative'... come on Slashdot, everyone knows pirates always clean up after their parrots
what on earth does the Interactive Illinois Report Card have to do with that?!
and because it didn't integrate with GMail. no one I know had Wave, they required to invite your whole address book all over again, next to skype, facebook, yahoo IM etc. It useless to have so many different mail boxes to check
What I don't understand is why you keep bending over to get royally ass-raped by the big corporations all the time?!
http://www.suzo.com/catalogue.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Arcade_(joystick) and http://www.xgaming.com/store/category/arcade-joysticks-and-game-controllers/
Python 2.5.2: /usr/bin/python
Sat Apr 24 14:34:09 2010
A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of function calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred. /home/jonathan/mirror/ajax/server.cgi in ()
220 print_palette_frame()
221 elif get_cgi(u'page') == u'showcase':
222 print_showcase_frame()
223 elif get_cgi(u'page') == u'text':
224 print_text_frame()
print_showcase_frame = /home/jonathan/mirror/ajax/server.cgi in print_showcase_frame()
149 css = styles[get_style()]
150 text = get_cgi(u'text')
151 link = commands.getoutput(u'/usr/local/bin/link')
152 timestamp = time.asctime(time.gmtime()) + u' UTC'
153 print u'''
link undefined, global commands = , commands.getoutput = /usr/local/lib/python2.5/commands.py in getoutput(cmd=u'/usr/local/bin/link')
42 def getoutput(cmd):
43 """Return output (stdout or stderr) of executing cmd in a shell."""
44 return getstatusoutput(cmd)[1]
45
46
global getstatusoutput = , cmd = u'/usr/local/bin/link' /usr/local/lib/python2.5/commands.py in getstatusoutput(cmd=u'/usr/local/bin/link')
51 """Return (status, output) of executing cmd in a shell."""
52 import os
53 pipe = os.popen('{ ' + cmd + '; } 2>&1', 'r')
54 text = pipe.read()
55 sts = pipe.close()
pipe undefined, os = , os.popen = , cmd = u'/usr/local/bin/link'
: [Errno 35] Resource temporarily unavailable
args = (35, 'Resource temporarily unavailable')
errno = 35
filename = None
message = ''
strerror = 'Resource temporarily unavailable'
...is the Dutch word for what I think of Dijkstra. He's overly negative is his opinions only to impress others and to let off steam built up by his personal frustrations. Besides his wonderful contributions to CS, he was mainly just a grumpy old man who's opinions have been grossly overrated. The gems of his work are in his scientific contributions, not in his tantrums.
I used to be a fan of my C64 games as a kid and I loved playing PC games for years. So much in fact I tried breaking into game development and ran the local IGDA chpater for some years. My heart is still with games and I think they are a wonderful extension to the artforms of literature, cinema and storytelling. When I see how the game dev industry treats its customers these days, I really get the feeling they are way beyond stretching their welcome. Games (especially console games) are so icredibly overpriced and lacking of creativity and intellectual depth that I wonder why gamers are still interested in buying/playing them. I haven't upgraded my gaming pc for almost 8 years now and I only have a Wii because my wife like the balance board games (and admittedly I love being her audience). The only games I occassionaly play are the really old ones, like Civ II/III Baldur's Gate stuff, the good old Sierra point and clicks (Larry, 2D King Quest) because of the humor and fun in these games. Also I really love firing up the C64 emulator for a quick round of classics. When will they stop squeezing customers for every penny and drop the incredible graphics/hardware performance race that has been polluting the game content for the past decade. I don't give a damn about 3D performnace or yet another FPS, come up with something new, interesting exciting. Something that doesn't insult my intelligence and challenges and entertains me in a more subtle way. Dear Douglas Adams I miss you, you were well on your way to solve this problem but you passed too soon. Oh god, is no one going to change this rotten game dev industry we're having? Perhaps I'm just an old fool blabbering about the lost good old days, but doesn't anyone agree that it's not supposed to be like this? *sigh*
Regular bikes also have been around for more than a century and actually also help you get the lard of your ass much quicker. I guess this is why America is fat.